The author claims that ever since the NDA came to power, “those who had been opposed to Modi personally and BJP ideologically had been waiting to catch the government falter and stray from its development agenda.”

A recently-launched book, 'Ganapati', carries paintings, drawings and sculptures of artist Sujata Bajaj and text by Jean Claude Carriere. Perhaps it was the darshan (the blessed vision) that both of them had been waiting for years.

Octogenarian mediaperson P. Raman pens a book sketched by nuggets of self-experienced struggles in the profession, with dashes of humour that colour up his trail down half-a-century of Indian media’s history

"To the extent we've been wronged, we must forcefully defend our honour; if somewhere we were wrong we must honestly and courageously accept the mistake and move on," writes Salman Khurshid in his latest book, ‘Spectrum Politics: Unveiling The Defence’. Extracts:

Long confined to territorial readership, women litterateurs of India’s ‘lesser’ cities and ‘far-flung’ regions air creative thoughts at an off-beat Mumbai event that also hosts personalities from cinema

The torture of incarcerated Tamils was not a betrayal of the Sri Lankan state's Sinhala-Buddhist ideal, but that ideal being taken to its logical conclusion, writes Karthick Ram Manoharan. Excerpts from his afterword to Sri Lankan Tamil novelist Kuna Kaviyalahan’s ‘The Poisoned Dream’.